Healing Starts with Understanding
Trauma, Anxiety & Relationship Insights from a Missouri Therapist
Welcome — I’m glad you’re here.
This blog is where I share tools, insights, and therapeutic guidance to help you understand trauma, anxiety, attachment wounds, relationship patterns, and the healing process.
All content is written by a licensed therapist providing online trauma therapy and couples counseling throughout Missouri — including Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, and surrounding areas.
Whether you’re exploring EMDR, wanting to understand your relationship triggers, or looking for support between sessions, you’ll find gentle, research-backed guidance here.
Healing from Past Hurt to Build Emotional Safety in Your Relationship
Past trauma and attachment wounds can impact emotional safety in relationships. Learn how couples counseling and trauma-informed therapy help couples heal and reconnect. Online couples therapy available across Missouri.
Why I Ditch New Year’s Resolutions (And Why You Might Want to Too)
Discover why New Year’s resolutions often fail — and how setting intentions can create sustainable growth, emotional clarity, and long-term change. Includes journal prompts, mental health insights, and tools for creating a grounded year ahead. Online therapy available throughout Missouri.
When Anxiety Affects Your Relationship (and What You Can Do About It)
Relationship anxiety can lead to overthinking, emotional overwhelm, and communication struggles. Learn what’s really happening in your nervous system and how online therapy in Missouri can help you create emotional safety and a stronger, healthier connection.
How to Stop the Same Arguments from Repeating in Your Relationship
Struggling with the same arguments? Learn why conflict cycles repeat and how to stop them. Online couples counseling across Missouri. Free relationship guides included.
Repeating the same arguments with your partner? This blog breaks down why conflict cycles happen, how attachment patterns show up in relationships, and what you can do to finally change the dynamic. Learn practical strategies to calm conflict, reconnect, and rebuild emotional safety. I offer online couples counseling throughout Missouri — including Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, Bolivar, and Polk County — and free resources to help you strengthen your relationship. Not ready for therapy yet? Explore my therapist-created mini-course, Roadmap for Couples: Back to Connection, based on Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).
Online Therapy in Missouri: What It’s Really Like to Heal From Home
Wondering what online therapy in Missouri is really like? Learn how telehealth counseling helps you heal from trauma, anxiety, and relationship struggles—right from home. Available across Missouri including Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, and rural communities.